NEW YORK -- January 26, 2012 - Oxygen Media has named Jordana Hochman to the position of Vice President, Production. In this role, Hochman will serve as executive producer on key series and be liaison to the marketing, communications, advertising sales and digital teams for those projects. She will act as main point of contact between the network and external producers and will manage all production related details including budget and production planning. Hochman is currently overseeing the second season of New Jersey based reality series "Jersey Couture," which premieres on Oxygen in February, and will be attached to other series in development. She will report to Teri Kennedy, Vice President, Current Production and will be based in Oxygen's New York office.

Before joining Oxygen, Hochman was Director, Non-fiction and Alternative Programming at A&E, where she developed and oversaw production for both A&E and BIO channel including such series as "Obsessed," "Fugitive Chronicles," "Intervention," "Bordertown: Laredo" and "Celebrity Ghost Stories." Earlier in her career she was supervising producer on MTV's "Made" and VH1's "The Fabulous Life." She also held director and producer roles on MTV's "Diary" and "True Life."

Hochman graduated with a degree in English Literature from McGill University. She resides in New York.

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Oxygen Media is a multiplatform lifestyle brand that delivers relevant and engaging content to young women who like to "live out loud." Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's media by changing how the world sees entertainment from a young woman's point of view. Through a vast array of unconventional and original content including "The Glee Project," "Bad Girls Club," "Hair Battle Spectacular," and "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," the growing cable network is the premiere destination for unique and groundbreaking unscripted programming. A social media trendsetter, Oxygen is a leading force in engaging modern young women, wherever they are, with popular, award-winning features online including www.OxygenLive.com, the real-time social viewing party that is also available as an app for the iPhone and iPad. Oxygen is available in 77 million homes, and can be found online and on mobile devices at www.oxygen.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/OxygenPR. Oxygen Media is a service of NBCUniversal.